Milton Rokeach

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Milton Rokeach (born December 27, 1918 in Hrubieszów , Poland , as Mendel Rokicz ; † October 25, 1988 in Los Angeles ) was a professor of social psychology at Michigan State University , and later at Washington State University . There he worked in a joint department for sociology and psychology .

Life

Emigrated with his parents at the age of 7, Rokeach received his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley in 1947. His most famous works are "The Open and Closed Mind" (1960), "Beliefs, Attitudes and Values: A Theory of Organization and Change " (1968) and " The Nature of Human Values ​​" (1973). He is considered one of the most important pioneers and representatives of behavioralism , a strictly individualistic research approach within political science . In 1984, Milton Rokeach was the " Kurt Lewin Memorial Award of the American Psychological Association " awarded.

Based on his book from 1973, he founded the Rokeach Value Survey , to which he also devoted the last few years of his career. In it he assumes that a relatively limited number of Terminal Human Values ​​are the internal reference points for all people from which they formulate and justify their attitudes and opinions. By measuring the order of preferences of these most important attitudes using survey methods , it is therefore possible to explain and predict a wide variety of political behaviors, such as political associations and religion .

The experiment carried out by Rokeach in 1959 at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Ypsilanti (Michigan) , in which the behavior of three mentally ill patients who were convinced that they were Jesus Christ, was documented. His book The Three Christs of Ypsilanti was then adapted for a script, a play and two operas.

Important works

  • The Open and Closed Mind: investigations into the nature of belief systems and personality systems , Basic Books, 1960
  • Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values: a theory of organization and change , Jossey-Bass, 1968
  • The Three Christs of Ypsilanti , Knopf, 1964
  • The Nature of Human Values , Free Press, 1973

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin Maack: Crazy experiments . The mirror. January 19, 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2010.
  2. ↑ Reto U. Schneider : The experiment - my name is Joseph Cassel. I am God. In: NZZ Folio 12/2003
  3. ↑ Meet three Jesuses , Arno Frank in one day , accessed on November 5, 2012
  4. ^ The Three Christs of Ypsilanti . Retrieved May 10, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Rokeach, Milton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Hrubieszów , Poland
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1988
Place of death los Angeles